freebsd-src/libexec/tftpd/tftpd.8
Warner Losh 8ea3178507 Reviewed by: Bill Fenner <fennder@parc.xerox.com>
Reviewed by:	Garrett Wollman <wollman@freebsd.org>
Submitted by:	Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Close PR bin/1145:
	Add -s flag to tftpd.  This enables the so-called secure mode
of tftpd where it chroots to a given directory before allowing access
to the files.  In addition, it runs as nobody when in this mode.
Reviewed a long time ago by Bill and Garrett.  Apply my patch from the
pr, and close the PR.
1996-09-22 04:19:27 +00:00

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.\" @(#)tftpd.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.Dd June 4, 1993
.Dt TFTPD 8
.Os BSD 4.2
.Sh NAME
.Nm tftpd
.Nd
Internet Trivial File Transfer Protocol server
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm tftpd
.Op Fl l
.Op Fl n
.Op Fl s Ar directory
.Op Ar directory ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Tftpd
is a server which supports the
Internet Trivial File Transfer
Protocol (\c
.Tn RFC 783).
The
.Tn TFTP
server operates
at the port indicated in the
.Ql tftp
service description;
see
.Xr services 5 .
The server is normally started by
.Xr inetd 8 .
.Pp
The use of
.Xr tftp 1
does not require an account or password on the remote system.
Due to the lack of authentication information,
.Nm tftpd
will allow only publicly readable files to be
accessed.
Files containing the string ``/\|\fB.\|.\fP\|/'' are not allowed.
Files may be written only if they already exist and are publicly writable.
Note that this extends the concept of
.Dq public
to include
all users on all hosts that can be reached through the network;
this may not be appropriate on all systems, and its implications
should be considered before enabling tftp service.
The server should have the user ID with the lowest possible privilege.
.Pp
Access to files may be restricted by invoking
.Nm tftpd
with a list of directories by including up to 20 pathnames
as server program arguments in
.Pa /etc/inetd.conf .
In this case access is restricted to files whose
names are prefixed by the one of the given directories.
The given directories are also treated as a search path for
relative filename requests.
.Pp
The chroot option provides additional security by restricting access
of tftpd to only a chroot'd file system. This is useful when moving
from an OS that supported
.Nm -s
as a boot server. Because chroot is restricted to root, you must run
tftpd as root. However, if you chroot, then
.Nm tftpd
will set its user id to nobody.
.Pp
The options are:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl l
Logs all requests using
.Xr syslog 3 .
.It Fl n
Suppresses negative acknowledgement of requests for nonexistent
relative filenames.
.It Fl s Ar directory
Causes tftpd to chroot to
.Pa directory
before accepting commands. In addition, the user id is set to
nobody.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr tftp 1 ,
.Xr inetd 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command appeared in
.Bx 4.2 .